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Clicking Hard Drive, Fujitsu 100 GB 5400 RPM

post #1 of 10
4/20/05 at 4:05am
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Anyone else have heard of this? Is this normal? I know normally clicking noises mean hard drive problems of some sort... and there have been problems with the Hitachi ones/60GB 7200 rpm. Other than clicking once every 5 minutes or so, haven't had any other problems with this. My hard drive model is Fujitsu 100 GB, 5400 RPM on a 9300
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post #2 of 10
4/20/05 at 8:26am
i got it in my 80 gig
its annoyin at night
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post #3 of 10
4/20/05 at 10:15am
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Do you think it's normal? I mean, as long as I know that it's not indicating my hard drive is about to die, I am fine with it... otherwise, I better hurry up and go ask for Dell to exchange it.
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post #4 of 10
4/20/05 at 10:54am
It's normal, but if you are still concerned you could use the diagnositics disk (or F2) to run a diag on the disk to be sure. I believe if you have s.m.a.r.t. turned on in the bios you'll get informed if there are disk errors that could cause a potential failure.
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post #5 of 10
4/20/05 at 11:27am
mine seemed to click alot, i downloaded some software from their website for acoustic management (its called feature something or another) and now its great.
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post #6 of 10
4/20/05 at 12:44pm
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Originally Posted by omars14
i got it in my 80 gig
its annoyin at night

I was most of the way through this post before I realized that only the first two tiny lines were the post itself and the rest was your sig. Sheesh.

-Doc
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post #7 of 10
4/20/05 at 3:20pm
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Do you guys all have the Fujitsu brand hard drive also? Also, Horse, did you download that utility from fujitsu website? I wasn't able to find it.
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post #8 of 10
4/20/05 at 3:53pm
Mine is a Fujitsu, but I haven't gotten my hands on it yet.

-Doc
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post #9 of 10
4/20/05 at 4:32pm
I have the Fusitsu 80GB 4200rpm. It is silent as a mouse. This is in a room where I can literally hear a pin drop. I had a 9300 with a 60GB 5400rpm in it. That drive clicked alot. Since hard drives are so prone to failure, my suggestion would be to have Dell replace it with a drive that doesnt make mechanical noises.

Most hard drive manufacturers say that drive noises like clicking and thunking are signs of potential failure.
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post #10 of 10
4/20/05 at 5:20pm
See this thread, it has all the info you need.
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=72510
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